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r- TUESDAY, MACH 12,
THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
HEW INDUSTRIAL
hums south
HALF MILLION PEOPLE
LEAVE MANHATTAN.
XE'.V TORK. March
-Enough
will mo
BALTIMORE. Md„ March 8.—
Though retrenchment Is being c. --
ctused In Botnc part* of the country,
several railroad project* in the South
of more than ordinary Importance arc
noted In this week's is
ufacturers' Record. One of the most
notable of these looks to the expendi
ture of about $5,000,000 upon a union
depot and terminals at Memphis. Tenn., j
ay In which are represented
:ar to ms
than
or money. Then came a waiter and
I bartender who had three times at-
I tempted ?uicide by various means, and,
! driven to desperation by losses in rjice-
; track gambling, had tried to shoot a
| h i' sd. Ar. 'th- r m.in confessed to be
ing a criminal who had been indicted
I forty times for larceny and was har-
| rassed by the fear of a life sentence.
The la't was a youth of 20, a victim
! of drugs, who stated that he had run
| through 160.000 within a month, had
; forged his father's name to checks, and
was ready to die unless the Army could
: think- of something better. According
; to Captain French, who is In charge of
I the work here, a similar bureau In Lon
don, which was opened early in Janu-
! ary. received 300 Intending suicides
i during the first eleven days. Including
all classes and conditions of society.
dozen new cities. Sites
i score- of such towns
have been mapped out along the rapid-
transit subway lines which will be in
operation next summer, and It is esti
mated that 500,000 people will grasp
the first available opportunity to desert
the Alan- | Manhattan fiats for more comfortable
and cheaper homos In outlying dis
tricts. What Is known as the ''metro
politan area” now extends well up into
Connecticut, embraces all the accessi
ble portions of M estchester County. J.from gentlemen In silk hats to Billing:,
the nort 2; * be ® ta * e j gate crossing sweepers. Out of 600 ap
plications. 300 had gone broke, about
0 were lonely. 150 couldn't get a Job,
nd the balance wanted to commit sul-
ide because of illness.
• Sparkling Jewels.
v, . a nd Nashville. the Southern and : I'lO.boo 'pTOple''''So‘ farTl‘a”ns"have ! More thail S«.000.000 " orth of pre-
Ihc Nashville. Chattanooga and St i been fl i ed for additional structures to I cious stjnes entered the country
Louis railroads. The new depot wmen , be completed this year at a cost of through the port of New York last year,
will be reached by elevated tracks, will , sc'O.OOO.f-OO. Yet this huge outlay is the greatest In the history of the busi-
cost about $3,000,000 and other term!- on ; y a part c » the billions which are ness, and this city is now regarded not
being spent to prepare outlying dls- : only as the principal diamond market
tricts for the spreading metropolis, a 1,°* tile world.,but also the chief depot
work which will cover vears of the for cutting the nugh gems. A recent
most Intense buildlne- activity. Three : news dispatch from London states
hundred and thirty-eight thousand ' that workmen front the diamond fac-
pcoplo, it is estimated, will be provided j torles of Antwerp are emigrating to
with homes bv the building operations i the United States in large numbers.
Mr. Theodore P. Shoots, ta whom the i attracted by the high wages offered in
task of solving New York’s transports-. New York and Massachusetts, and that
tlon nroblem has been delegated in h ! i ! local opinion is alarmed for the future
capacity of president of the Interbor- I °f Antwerp’s ancient Industry. Since
I nf nnllL. « Th « : ’ « f h A fl rat <rATR Wfl S AYTlOft P/1 fmTTl t flP
United States court. Hearings were i
had in the cases of the Central and :
Southern, demurrers were sutained by
Judge Newman and the roads nave |
gone to the United States Court cf j
Appeals at New Orleans. The Coast ;
Line case has not yet been heard, but '
its outcome will depend on the final I
decision In the others.
In the meantime the Railroad com
mission does not propose to await the {
outcome of this litigation before pro- j
•-•codings to inquire into the abil *y cf j
th* other roads named to stand similar
reductions, and It has taken this m li
ter up on its own motion.
The Two-Cer.t Passenger Rate.
Following close upon these freight
hearings, the commission will take up
April 2, the question of reducing the
rate of passenger fare in Georgia.
ing their own passage would in no
way affect Georgia.
HARTFORD. Conn.. March 9.—The
Supreme Court of the State has ju^t
handed down a decision to the effect
that barbers in the State need not
shave colored men. The decision was
reached on an appeal from a Superior
CALL DR. COMMON SENSE AND
ALSO DR. JUSTICE
Savoyard, in Nashville Banner.
WASHINGTON.—We have had
Court decision in Bridgeport, by Henry ! scores of financial geniuses piling up
H. Foulkuer, a colored man. who
brought suit against Thomas Solazzi,
a barber of that city. Solazzi refused
to shave Foulkner. his defense being
that his barber shon was not a place
for public accommodation within the
meaning of the law. The Supreme
Court upholds that contention.
SAN JUAN. P. R.. March 9.—The
Porto Ricans are desirous of having a
j native of the island appointed secre- j conic, and he fills a greater place in
millions in our great country—Girard,
Astor. Stewart, Blair. Gould. Vander
bilt. Hill, Morgan, Field, Gates. Rocke
feller, Carnegie, Ryan, Belmont, Sage,
Clark, Hanna. Mills, Huntington, Ar
mour, Fair. A Rickey, Drexel. Hunting-
ton. Weightman, and many others;
but this Edward H. Harriman is a
demigod in comparison and the great
est captain of Industry the world ever
knew. His combinations are Napol-
about $2,000,000.
Another million -dollars will be spent
for buildings and equipment of ma
chinery for the new shops of the Cen
tral of Georgia Railroad at Macon. Ga.
The directors of the company have de
cided to enlarge the present plant, in
creasing the acreage covered by build
ings. roundhouse and trackage, for
which plans have already been pre
pared.
Contract has been awarded for the ough-Metrooolitan Raflwnv system has ! the first gem was exported from the
dredging to be done in preparation for | ma( j e the interesting di'-covcry that ! Capt of Good Hope in 1868. the United
the construction of the first of the big : passengers are being wedged into the < States has
r i! pier- 1 which the Tidewater R:nl- j cars so compactly that It Is impossible 1 diamonds,
way is to build at Its terminals upar .for them to gel their hands down Into ! cash whicl
covery , ,
jms paid about $325,000,000 for
I j or one-half of the amount or
j -for them to get their hands down into ! cas ' 1 which South Africa has obtained
Norfrkk and also th& contract for the their pockets, and that hence the com- ' flT its entire supply of precious stones
substructural work. The pier, which pany t s losing more In fares than it i sold t0 nI1 P*** 8 of the world. These
will be 1.000 feet long. GO feet wide and wou 'i d cost to furnish nnd ma ntain ad- j figure-', however, represent only what
>st between ?',509,- f .,uinto facilities. This Is believed to be i the importers have paid, and authori-
. _ nf thfi cnsuln „ year at a substantial re- i «** in the trade sav that the public
auction In rents which now, for the i b 3 > s at least twice as much. Taking
poorer classes, frequently average as i irto account- tola fact that the value of
high as 36 or 40 per cent of th«lr In- l-diamonds has been going up steadily,
comes because of the necessity for 'having advanced 200 per cent in the
crowding within commuting distances
of their employment.
Transportation Problom.
leant; a 125-mlle extension -of the De t an argument which will appeal to Mr. ^
Queen and Eastern Railway from De j Hyan and .dr. Belmont with some force of them ore in existence, as the per-
Queen to Hot Springs. Ark.; the build- | inst as-soon ns Mr. Sbonts can prepare eentage of loss is so small as to be un-
- — - — - 1 the necessary diagrams and drawings : jmnortarit.
and a few reports to substantiate the j 1
statement. In the meantime figures ob
tained by a sub-committee of the Re
publican county committee, which has
been investigating the matter, show
that in the first nine months of 1906 the
company took in 11,700.000 cash fares
more than for the same period af 1905.
They also show that while traffic was
increasing at the rate of 1,300.000 pas
feet high will cost
000 and $2,000,000. Other railroad im
provements and extensions reported
Include the building by the Kansas
y City Southern Railroad of a line from
Crowley, La. to connect with the New
Orleans. Crowley and Western Rail
road: of a second track on the Yazoo
and Mississippi Valley line for 00 miles
between Baton Rouge and New Or-
lng of a low grade line for the Illlnol
Central between Birmingham and Jas
per. Ala.; a six-mile extension of the
State Railroad connecting Ru«k and
Gallatin, Tex., and) the building at
Martinsburg, W. V.. of yards to be
used jointly by the Pennsylvania, the
Baltimore and Ohio and the Western
Maryland railroads.
This month the contract will be let
for the car repair shops at Odentort
M<1.. of the Washington. Baltimore nnd
Annapolis Electric Railroad Company.
This is one of the inter-urban electric
lines to which the South is giving at
tention. Another project of the kind
for which rights-of-way and franchises
are now being secured Is to connect the
more Important towns in northwestern
Arkansas. Survey hu? begun for a line
connecting Dallas and Greenville. Tex.,
nnd a company Is organizing to con
struct a line to servo Onley, Onancock,
Tasloy,. Aceomac. Looustvllle and
Wachaprague on the eastern shore of
Virginia. Street rnllc-'y companies at
Atlanta. Ga.. Louisv.de. Ky., Hunts
ville. Ala., Lexington, Ky.. and Jack-
son. Miss., are also contemplating im
provements of one kind and another.
WHILE STOCKS FULL
NEW YORK, March 8.—Bradstreets
tomorrow will say:
"Trade conditions continue to Im
prove, 1he tendency In this respect
being the direct antithesis of that dis
played in the stock market. The
country buyers are in the larger mar
kers in goodly numbers and the vol
ume of house business done Is of ex
cellent proportions, exceeding In some
lines even that of a year ago. when
business was exceptionally brisk. Dry
goods, millinery, hats and caps and
in fact all wearing apparel being In
the forefront as regards activity, an
early Easter making for nn early
opening of spring trade. In such lines
as cotton goods, some of which tend
to further advance, it is not a ques
tion of proctirlng business, but rather
one of making deliveries on orders
booked months ago. As regards man
ufacturing lines it Is the old story of
heavily filled order books and cnpaclty
being worked to the utmost, despite
which deliveries are backward. Col
lections though satisfactory in some
lines, are on the whole very slow, the
tightness of money and the enormous
volume of business outstanding being
the main factors. Business in pig
iron, taking the country as a whole,
Is of fair proportions, nevertheless the
disposition of buyers is to await con
cessions. Wheat, corn nnd oats, after-
sagging off about 1 cent, strengthened
slightly and practically the entire loas
was recovered. The unprecedented
demand for cotton goods, with the
highest prices In a generation, are a
stimulus to bullish feeling as regards
the raw material off setting at pres
ent the heavy receipts of old crops
and the reports of a large acreage to
be planted this spring.
Business, failures In the United
States for the week ending March 7
number 172 against 3!>4 ’.is: week and
177 in the like week of 1906. Canadian
failures this week 21 against 42 last
week, and .64 in this week a year ago.
Wheat, including flour, exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week aggregated 2,251,303 bushels,
against 2,857.430 last week and 2,563 -
nS3 this week last year. For the past
36 weeks of the fiscal year the exports
are 123,034,831 bushels against 97.-
vi.- ■;•>,-> las; vim:-. Corn exports for the
week are 2,631,532 bushels against
3,360.465 last week and 2.394,445 a
year ago. For the fiscal year to date
the exports of corn are 45,315,183
against 86,817,163 last year.
last eight years, some dealers are of
the oplni-en that the gems brought into
this country from South Africa in these
thirty-eight years must now be worth
more than a billion dollars. Nearly all
MARCH BUSY MONTH FOR
RAILROAD COMMISSION
Governor in succession to Beekman ; is master of the Union Pacific, the
I Southern Pacific, tiv Oregon system,
RIGA. Russia. March 9.—The re- the Alton, the Kansan city Southern
markable case of Anton Lust, the j and the Illinois Central. He. is deep
Esthenian revolutionists, who after • in Santa Fe, Baltimore and Ohio, Read-
1. is facing ins’. Deleware and Hudson. Norfo'k
once being legally executed, is facing
a second death sentence for pillaging
an estate during the insurrection in
the Baltic province, will be referred
to the lower house of Parliament.
There was a hearing on this question ; tary of Porto Rico to succeed Regis the -affairs of mankind than any
nearly two years ago, and though the : Henri Post, who has been appointed crowned head in the entire world. He
commission decided not to make any —
reduction at that time, in its order It
left the matter open so that it could
without prejudice take it up at any
time in the future.
The hearing comes up this time up’an
- petition filed by the Georgia Far
mers’ Union in which it is said there
are more thtm 60.000 members, and they
will be represented by Judge J. K.
Hines, of Atlanta.
Considerable work has been done in
the matter of get tin- up information
relative to this subject for presenta
tion to the commission when the hear
ing is had, and it is asserted that in
interesting showing will be made fro n
the Farmers’ Union standpoint. It is
said that the passenger earnings on
some of the railroads -of Georgia are
nearly doubel what they were two jr
three years ago, and at the same time
their business has grown rapidly along
all lines.
EL PASO, Texas. March 9.—Ad
vices received from Chihuahua. Mexico,
today, state that 35 men. women and
children were killed at San Andoes, 20
leagues from there yesterday by the
accidental explosion of a large quan
tity of dynamite.
SMITHVILLE, Ga., March 9.—Mrs.
N. H. Olmstead, wife of the Methodist
pastor here, returned last night from
Cairo, Ga.. where she has been for
Sime ten States have, within the ' four weeks in attendance upon the
last few weeks either reduced the pis- j bedside of her brother-in-law, Rev.
senger fare or have such action pend- ; Joseph Parker, who was slowly dying
lng. Several of them have cut it to two | with tubercolosis of the throat. * He
cents, a reduction of 33 1-3 per cent *n
the passenger earnings cf the lines af
fected.
The Georgia Railroad Commission
has had so much litigation to contend
with that its present policy is to go
slaw in the matter of making radical
changes. The comfissioners Icel that
when they do anything they want their
action such as will be sustained in j.ny
court which may review it.
In view of all the facts it is doubtful
if a reduction to two cents can be ex
pected in this State. The more likely
result is, from all Indications, that
passed quietly away Wednesday
NEW YORK, March 9.—An autopsy
held today by Coroner’s Physician
O’Hanlon disclosed, it was subsequent
ly stated, that Leonidas Preston, a mil
lionaire, who died suddenly yesterday
at the Hotel Cumberland, had enough
hydrocyanic poison in his stomach to
kill six men.
ATLANTA. March 9.—About the
sengers a month, the number of cars busiest month of its existence, at least
In service was reduced until In Decern- in recent months, lies before the State
bei- but 1.775 cars were run ns against i Railroad Commission.
2.250 five years ago, when 309,304.273 j Reductions of freight rates, reduc-
fewer passengers were carried than ; tion of passenger rates and the ques-
l.ist year. In ten years the traffic of tion of the safety of the Georgia
the elevated and surface lines in the i Railroad for travel, are t>? matters
CLEVELAND, March 9.—Repulsed
by tile woman with whom he was
madly in love, Henry DeBurt, a prom-
there will be a reduction to 214 cents. 1 inent contractor, fired a bullet into his
Some have suggested that ‘Georgia ' head while standing in the doorway of
railroads are in even a better position the woman’s home. 1416 Prospect ave-
than those of North Carolina, and that nue one of Cleveland’s fashionable
] if that State can stand a reduction to residence streets this afternoon. De-
2% cents, that that would be a fair : Burt was removed to a hospital in a.
rate for Georgia. The «2% cent prop- j dying condition.
osition, however, seems to bo the one |
i now most talked about. RICHMOND, Va., March 9.—At
meeting here tonight of alumni of
New York Cotton Exchange Statistics, j Washington and Lee University, mem
ll’ Ilf D ATo m Vl X — T lx n fnI1nn*lM— I - , . - - , -
bers of the faculty and trustees of that
borough of Manhattan has increased
from 490.152,790 cash fares in 1897 to
1.007,161,933 in 1906, and last year
showed an Increase of approximately
14 per cent over 1905.
Young Kiki.
A little crude of method, perhaps, as
might be expected of a novice, but dis
playing promising signs of developing
into a railroad magnate or tho presi
dent of a life insurance company at the
which it will have to consider within
the next thirty days.
Two of these matters are scheduled
to come up for hearing orf Wednesday
next. March 13. 'out it will require sev
eral days to investigate and dispose of
either one of them.
The first of these interesting propo
sitions confronting the commission is
the physical condition of the road
bed and rolling stock of the Georgia
very least, the career of Kiki Peters i Railroad and Banking Company which
has been cruelly nipped in the bud. j Bowdre Phinizy. of Augusta, says
Kiki Is 13 years aid, which unfortunate i i n such condition of deterioration
number may account for his bad luck. road is unsafe for public
Until last Wednesday, when Justice
Wyatt of tho Children’s -Court sen
tenced him to two years in the New
York Juvenile Asylum’s exclusive re
sort for young men of tender years,
Kiki was leader of the famous Whyo
gang of youthful highwaymen who , , , , ... , .,
haunt the East Sixty-fourth street i “/most less than nothing and his
travel.
It was first the intention of tho
commission to inspect those places in
the roadbed which Mr. Phinizy had
specifically pointed out as unsafe, but
upon Mr. Phlnlzy’s declaration that
such an inspection would accomplish
in
fastnesses. Like a true disciple of Dick
Turpin, he always led his trusty band
to prey upon the wealthy. Once and
again he led them in daring and suc
cessful raids upon the gilded scions of
the rich who go to school in the aristo
cratic neighborhood of West End ave-
sistence that careful inspection should
be made by an expert, and also upon
the request of the Georgia Railroad of
ficials for an oral hearing, the com
mission abandoned its first intention,
and summoned General Manager T. K.
Scott, the directors of the Georgia
NEW YORK. March S.—The followin
statistics on th« movement of cotton
for the week ending Friday. March S.
were compiled by the New York Cotton
Exchange:
Weekly Movement.
This Last
year. year.
Port receipts 175.453 105.431
To mills and Canada..;... 21.236 22.106
Sou. mill takings, est. 52.000 45.000
Stock lost int. towns 29.328 14,660
Into sight for week 219,331 157.SS0
Total Crop Movement
Port receipts 8.456.597 6.389.448
To mills and Canada.. 949.646 700.G39
Sou. mill takings, esti. 1.571,000 1.451.000
Int. stock ex. Sept. 1.. 411,111 433.201
Into sight for season.. .11.387.354 8.974,33S
96.47S bales added to the receipets for
the season.
nue, whence they returned bearing Railroad and Mr. Phinizy, the com
much spoil In the way of skates, hockey J.. 1 ? iant ’ *° before it next
sticks nnd red sleds, and leaving the ~ c I nes ,?, a Y a , n< ^ show cause,
enemy dissolved in such tears as flood The State law requires that when-
Wall street the morning after Mr. Har- : *l ver R ] . s disclosed to the Railroad
rlman has acquired control of a few Commission that any railroad is un
railroads. But the third time stem- saf ®, for public travel, the commission
vlsaged Fate, in the guise of a fat cop, j sIla l ] make investigation either itself
lay In wait for the daring band, and a an a * ent ’ Presumably an expert
treacherous bit of ice precipitated the I r ai,roa d man, ana shall take such ac-
plunder-laden Kiki into the arms of tion as may be deemed necessary to
his pursuer. Kiki steadfastly refused require said railroad company to maae
to tell the names of the lads who were sa *f: , . . . , .
with him, nnd announced that even if ^ h ' ,e state d that the inspection
he got a life sentence he wouldn’t , |? a >‘ b , e made ^ , an a ^ eat , or exp ? rt ’
squeal. When he heard his sentence : ‘ bcre ls no Provision made for paying
he remarked: “Well, dis Is easy. I ! thp expenses of such an inspection,
sure tinks I gits de ref., but I ain’t got i
and the Railroad Commission conclud-
no kick cornin’.” Judging by the rec- ! ed that if !t was to be done the y must
orris of other East Side desperadoes ! da !t themselves. citizens, a large delegation -ot students them a considerable distance. He
\vh) have been sent to the Juvenile) To make a complete and adequate from Brigham Young University, and • burned seven villages, killed twenty
i_ - u ** *■ 1 a brass band were on hand to welcome the tribesmen and took ?. number of
the Senator. The Senator and Airs, prisoners. Raisuli succeeded In escap-
Smoot were taken to the university, in Sf before the engagement and look
where an informal reception was held. ; refuge at Tazirout.
isvlum, the chances are good that Kiki : inspection, it.™M almost be neces-
- - - ' sarv to go carefully over every foot
institution, prominent Confederate vet
erans. and lady members of the Con
federate Memorial Association and oth
ers. a tentative organization wap
formed with a view to raising a fund
of $100,000 for the establishment of a
memorial to Gen. R. E. Lee, In the
shape of the endowment of a chair of
American history at the university
PARIS, March 9—A sudden virtual'y
unanimous and unexpected strike on
the part of practically all the electric
ians of Paris at 5 o’clock this after
noon, resulted in the almost complete
paralyzation of the business of the
city by the time night had fallen.
FITZGERALD, Ga.. March 9.—Air.
Henry Ingles died at noon today at his
home in this city. He was one of
Fitzgerald’s early settlers, coming here
from Michigan in 1897.
His wife. Mrs. Lillian Ingles, pre
ceded him but a few months, having
died last September while still actively
engaged as a newspaper correspondent.
SPARTANBURG,. S. C„ March 9.—
Airs. Alary E. Littlejohn, seventy-nine; AIOSCOW, March 9.—The cashier of
years old, was burned to death at 9 i the Bromley Manufacturing Company,
o’clock tonight in her home at Caw- ! an English concern, was held up at the
pens. S. C. Her clothing is believed i cit >' sates today by a band of robbers
to have been ignited by the fire be- 1 ar ?d relieved of a wallet containing
fore which she was sitting. She was ! 36,500 In cash.
SACRAAIENTO. Cal., Alarch 9.—The
Senate this afternoon unanimously
adopted a joint resolution protesting
against the naturalization of Jap
anese, instructing the Senators nnd
Congressman of California to combat
News in Paragraphs
a sister of Air. John T. Williams, sev
enty-five years of age, who was
burned to death today in his home
near the Mary Louise cotton mills, six
miles ft-Dm Cowpens.
NEW YORK, Alarch 9.—The four- i
story building occupied by William | such “Pernicious legislation” and to
Green, a printer, from whose presses
“Smart Set” and "Town Topics” are
printed, was burned.tonight, causing a
loss of about $300,000. Seventy-five
girls were working in the place when
the fire was discovered in the store
keeping department on the fourth floor.
All escaped without injury.
PROVO. Utah, March 9—When Sen-
work for the passage of an exclusive
law to include Japanese. Koreans and
all other Asiatics. The resolution is a
substitute for one Introduced by Sen
ator Sanford.
TANGIER, Alarch 9.—The news that
Raisuli once again has escaped his pur
suers is confirmed. Kaid Mehalla, the
representative of the minister of war,
ator Reed Smooth and party arrived ^ as dislodged the Ben-Iarous tribes-
here today from Washington, many men from their positions and driven
will be turned to a more useful if less
. nr v.io-1, l of the road, and the members of the
' commission are not Inclined to walk
uaj n ‘ ' . . D . . - . lover the 300 odd miles which the
High-Priced Pens.oners. Georgia Railroad operates in the
The official report of the pdlice pen- | state, notwithstanding they stated
sison fund for the year ended Decern-
ber 31, 1906, which has just left the
hands of tho printer, shows that sev
eral of the higher-class pensioners,
who. retired with the reputation of pos
ing large fortunes, are still draw- i
Ing large sums from the fund. In the
RICHAIOND, Va., Alarch 9.—Arthur ! WASHINGTON, March 9.—President
Davis, sometimes known as “Jack” I Roosevelt has decided to appoint Labor
they would go fully into the matter, j Davis, the North Carolina negro con- ! Commissioner Chas. P. Neill and Prof.
even if they had to walk over every j victed of the murder of J. F. Saleby, a
tbe roadbed. i Syrian peddler of Petersburg, while
The commission did not think it | the latter was at work at Dendron,
would be proper either for It to ac- i Va.. on December 26. 1906, was hang-
cept the private car and engine ten- rd j n the jail at Surrey court house to-
dered by the directors of the Georgia
long list of pensioners, which includes road for the purpose of making this
a great number of widows, a score or inspection, nor to accept the proposi-
more of children, and 305 retired mem- : tion of that road to pay the expenses
bers of the force, there a few names 0 f such expert as the commission
which were once a power in the city’s might employ to act In its stead. If
affairs. Not only as to police matters the members^had to make the inspec-
but in other directions as well. There tion personally, they determined they
day. The execution was the first In
the history of the county.
BISMARCK, N. D.. Alarch 9.—The
North Dakota Legislature adjourned
today. The closing session saw the
J. W. Jenks, of Cornell University, to
be civilian members of the Immigration
Commission, authorized by the last
Congress. Another civilian member re
mains to be chosen. The names of the
three Senators and three members of
the House who are to be on the Com
mission have already been announced.
and Western and St- Paul. The Hill sys
tem. the Vanderbilt system, -and even
the mighty Pennsylvania itself are «n
such awe of him they dare not thwart
his combinations. He is the master
spirit of Wall street and can do any
thing and everything that money can
do.
A great many good folk earnestly
believe and some bad folks pretend -o
believe that this man is a monster,
a menace to the Government and an
enemy of mankind. It is a great mis
take. Sooner or later somebody-must
gather all the railroads of this country
Into one stupendous system, and the
sooner the better. Harriman has more
capacity in that line than any of his
fellows, and it would be better if he
were given full swing, so as to have
it'over and be done with it. Of course,
such talk as I am trying to make is
treason, but it is either that or Govern
ment ownership, which is much worse
than treason. It is folly and it is ruin.
Competition is at the bottom of all
this railroad row. Rebates is but the
child of competition. Rockefeller and
Carnegie are but the children of re
bate. A railroad has to work to exist,
and it is one thing that had better
work at a loss than not to work at
all. A coal mine may be idle for years
and get to be more valuable for each
year. The same is true of a farm that
is left to briars and weeds. The in
crease of population will make, it more
valuable by accretion nnd the annual
decay cf vegetable growth will make
it more fertile. Gold put in a stocking
and buried in the earth will not lose
Us value, but a railroad becomes ’a
right of way and a streak of rust” if
not operated. Therefore, the managers
of our railroads, who are no fools,
by sheer force of circumstances, bid
against one another for business out
of every great center in order to keep
their properties from going to decay.
They did not do this be cause they
wished to do it, but because they had
to do it. Their own safety made the
grim demand. In the name of the
people the demagogues heat the pool
ing bill in Congress. That was ex
actly what Rockefeller, Carnegie. Ar
mour, Havermeyer and every other
child of monopoly wanted. It added
ur.told millions to the profits of the oil
trust, the steel trust, the beef trust,
the sugar trust, and scores of other
trusts to the detriment of the very peo
ple who paid the extortions and in
whose name the pooling bill was
slaughtered. If the Hon. Boutell cf
Chicago did not have it copyrighted, I
would be tempted right here to quote
Oxenstein: “Behold, my son. with how
little wisdom the world Is governed.”
And so the railroads, having to carry
goods from competitive points at rates
fixed by their customers, were forced
to carry merchandise from non-com
petitive points at rates fixed by their
agents. This was a skimming of the
country for the town; but the roads
had- to do it or go into bankruptcy.
A railroad is out far business not for
fun. A bankrupt railroad is a burden
to society. Take the case of a bank in
a rural town. Say it has $100,009 de
posits and it fails. It is a calamity to
that community and injures men who
have no dealings with it. It throws
everything into confusion and makes a
day for general liquidation. Just as
a railroad is bigger than a bank. Its
bankruptcy is more calamitous than
the bank’s failure can be. Therefore the
skimming of non-competitive commu
nities bv unjust rates is excusable, if
not iustifiablc.
The rural roosters saw that thev
were skinned to save the roads from
bankruptcy and set up a howl about
‘long and short haul” abuses. It was
natural for them to do so; but it
would have been better had they at-'
tacked the cause—competition, at great
centers. The pooling bill might have
sufficed; hut it Is certain consolida
tion would have done the. thing thor
oughly and completely. Tf every rail
road out of Chicago had been under
a single management, the beef trust,
comparative to the ruthless wild hog
It Is become, would have been gen
tle and as harmless as any lamb it
ever slaughtered. The same is true
of the other trusts, the spawn of re
bate.
am not saying the railroads are
blameless: far from it. They have
made bad things intolerable. In th
wila scramble for gain, clean am
dirty, they have been as great hog
as anybody. The law was to them a
the seven green withes were to Sam
son. They were tyrannical and bru
tal and made bankrupts where they
might have, and should have, made
quack, a charlatan, a humbug. But
when he comes the American people
will know him and follow him. It may
be next year: It may be years and
years in the future, but he will come
as Alfred came, as Hampden came, as
Washington came. And he will be a
Democrat, an oM-fashioned Democrat
—for States' rights, honest taxation,
sound money, and justice to great and
small alike.
And here will be the solution of tha
railroad problem. All of them will be
gathered Into one gigantic corpora^on,
under the management of wise, honest,
and efficient men. It will serve every
community alike. When the country is
prosperous it will be prosperous, and
unless the people are prosperous it can
not bo prosperous. Its stocks and bonds
will be in the billions and will afford
opportunity for the investment of the
people's savings. Fiduciaries will bo
required to buy thorn for widows and
orphans. Insurance companies will
own theirs. They will serve for bases
for national bank circulation. In time
the masses of the people will ownt these
securities, and thus we will have all
the advantages of socialism without its
virus. Rates will adjust themselves.
Boards of Trade of our great marts
will be represented in its directory, and,
not unlikely, each State will have a
representative acting as advisory di
rector. Such a concern would have to
be conservative and have to be just.
The responsibility would be so great
that it would force every director to
bo just.
* * *
Your Harrimans, your Hills, your
Morgans will prepare the way whan
given liberty. Mr. Harriman may ac
complish it in spite of the powers that
be.
This Is a dream, but it will be nn
actuality some day. Then, and not till
then, the railroad problem will be set
tled. Roosevelt is treating symptoms;
his remedy will not cure. Bryan pur
poses to doctor symptoms: his remedy
will kill.
Bring in Dr. Common Sense, call in
Dr. Justice as consulting , physician.
•Thev will effect a cure.
World's Visible Supply.
NEW ORLEANS. March Secretary
Hester’s statement of tile world’s visible
supply of cotton, issued today, shows the
total visible to be 5,457.682 against 5.504.-
468 last week nnd 5.094,907 Inst year. Of
this the total of American cotton Is 1.128..
682 against 4.23S.46S last week and 3.501.-
907 last year, and of all other kinds, in
cluding Egypt. Brazil. India, etc., 1,329,000
against 1,266,000 last week and 1,593,000
last year.
Of the world's visible supply of cotton,
there is now afloat and held in Great Brit
ain and continental Europe 2,987.000
against 2.543.000 last year: in Egvpt 227.-
090 against lSO.Oon last year; in India
642.000 against 9SG.OO0 last year, and in
the United States 1,602,000 against 1.3SG,-
000 last year.
NEW ORLEANS. Ln.. Alarch 8.—
Secretary Hester's weekly statement
issued today shows for the eight days
of Alarch an increase over last year
of 92,000 nnd an Increase over the
same period year before last of 300.
Fob the 1S9 days of the season that
have elapsed the aggregate ts ahead of
the same days of last year 2,395,000
and ahead of year before last 1,467,-
000. Tho amount brought into sight
during the past week has been 233,122
bales, against 170,626 for the same sev
en days last year and 225,728 year
before last.
The movement since September 1st
shows reecipts at all United States
ports 8,450.321, against 6,347,136 last
year; overland across the AIis»isslppi,
Ohio and Potomac rivers to Northern
mills and Canada. 950,087, against 707,-
6SS last year: interior stocks in excess
cf those held at the close of the com
mercial year, 420.234, against 456,999
last year; Southern mills’ taking* 1,-
516.000, against 1,429939 last year.
These make the total movement since
September 1, 11.336,642, against 8,941,-
782 last year. Foreign exports for the
week have been 164.SID. against 129,527
last year, making the total thus far
for the season 6,498,266.' against 4,770,-
123 last year.
The total takings of American rni!W»,
North, South and Canada, thus far for
the season have been 3,551,868. against
3,248 068 last year. Stocks at the sea
board and the twenty-nine leading
Southern interior centers have in
creased during the week 40.238 bales,
against a decrease during the corre
sponding period last season of 56,717.
Including stocks left over at ports and
interior towns from the last crop and
the number of bales brought into
sight thus far from ihe new crop, tho
supply to date Is 11.C34.412. against
9.3SG.311 for tho same period last year.
Sea Island Cotton,
SAVANNAH. Ga.. Alarch 8.—S^a island
cotton quotation*: Fancy Florida* 35a36:
fancy Georgias 25n36; extra choice Geor
gias and Florida® 33-i.li: choice Georgias
nnd Floridas 31: extra fine Georgias olid
Florid as 29a39; fine Georgias and Florl-
(Jg g 25
CHARLESTON. Alarch 8.—Sea island
cotton: Re'-eipts 17; exports 453: sales
342; stock 494. Fine, 34; fully fine. 33:
extra fine. 40.
Weekly Interior Cotton Towns
NEW YORK. March S.—The following
the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and
Ohio have developed a state of things
! just as bad and as intolerable ns was
Ch
Weekly Bank Clearings
7 YORK Alarch 8.—Total bank
r The week ending Thursday,
• 7 show an aggregate of $3,451.-
I4.0F-' against $8,564,007,000 last week
S3 263 056.000 in the corresponding
. .-k last vear. Inc. Dec.
....$6.440,000 2
5A29!000!I!!l7.5
• 873 oco....91.7
.'... 1,917.000....57.0
.... 1.481.000 8
.... 1.64< 000... .15.8
.. 1,828,000....15.2
.... 630.000....35.7
NEW
Richmond
Savannah
Atlanta .
Norfolk .
Weekly Bank Statement.
NEW YORK. March 9.—The statement
>f tke clearing-house banks for the week
a-- that tie banks hold 82.051.725 more
.- the i«gai reserve requirements. This
dee res se of $1,806,925 as compared
The statement fol-
Deerease.
$1.066.9',6.900 $12,228,700
1 019.880. P0 is.542.700
. ' 52 -'81 300 503 900
1.1
Is. for example, former Inspector and
ex-Chief Thomas Byrnes, who retired
from the /orce when Theodore Roose
velt was a commissioner, and who is
credited with a large fortune accu
mulated in Wail street under the tutel
age of Jay Gould and other magnates
of the street in bygone days, but still
draws a pension of $3,000 a year. An
other old-timer, long since forgotten
by the public, Is William Alurray, who
is said to be far beyond the reach of
the gaunt and hungry wolf. John AIc-
Cullagh, who is now in business in the
city, is the th'rd member of the trio
would get on the regular trains, pay
their fare and go to as many places
and sec as much of It as time would j
permit.
It is more than probable that some
INDIANAPOLIS, Alarch O.-FThe In
diana Legislature today adopted a
passage in the Senate of the two and concurrent resolution accepting the _
one-haif cent railroad fare bill, and invitation of Virginia to participate ;n ! shown in the investigations of the jn-
the anti-pass bill. These measures are the Jamestown Exposition and creat- j surance companies of New York.
ing a commission of ten members to
represent the State.
now before the Governor. The House
passed a Senate bill providing that the
candidate for the United States Sen
ate having 40 per cent or more
There was rottenness everywhere and
cleanliness nowhere.
sort of inspection of the property will votes in the primary elections, shall
be the party's candidate. a
PIERRE, S. D.. Alarch 9.—The State
Legislature adjourned sine die today.
An uniuuai number of important
the measures were enacted into law, among
j them being prohibition of railway
There Is hardly anything in recent ; passes and telegraph franks, provls-
be made, but just how it will be don
remains to be determined at next
Wednesday’s hearing. The line-up
will be complete, both sides will have
their say and some sort of decision
will have to be reached as to
proper course to be pursued.
HAVANA, March 10.—The Liberal mem- I And so our doctors of statecraft
bo r s . tb £ executive committee, ap- | j. e ( about the regulation of our great
poin.ed by Governor Mngoon to drow up : tvenonnrtotlen svs*-p*na For veers the
eerie in r,<v>rte.i lew,- thmntnr, 1 transportation siPoij. i*or years ine
railroad history in this State that
who are drawing the irghe^t pensions attracted more attention than
last w-ek.
latlon ••
-■i tenders
.185.4'
2.834.100
3 608.500
6 '!■' 600
2 501.275
5.671.625
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
Examine label on ycur pa-
pes. It tells how you stand on
the books. Due from date on
the label. Send in dues and
also renew for the year 1907.
on the list. Former Chief of Police
Devery, after retiring, openly invested
$395,000 in real estate, and among the
present inspectors of the force. AIc-
Cluskev, Cross Flool and Titus live in
a style far beyond th? salary of a police
inspector. So no one wonders at the
opposition to the bill, now before the
State Legislature, which is designed to
give the commissioner such control
over the force as to seriously menace,
if not entirely destroy, the opportunity
for accumulating vast private fortunes
while serving as guardians of the city’s
peace and wealth.
The Anti-Suicide Bureau.
The Anti-Suicide Bureau of the Sal
vation Army which has just been
opened in New York is expected to
throw considerable light on the darker
side of Ham’efs grim philosophy. From
statistics collected by the Army, it
seems that suicides ir. New York num
ber" 22.7 p r 100 000. In cities like Ho
boken and St. Louis the proportion Is
29.2. and the average of fifty cities
throughout the country is 17.9. while
San Francisco has the high average 'f
49.6. The opening day of the burpau
was marked by the appearance of four
men and one woman, all conspicuously
well dressed. The first was a tall old
Hebrew, who stated that he had lest
The savings of a lifetime, some $40,000. j
in Wail street, and could see nothing |
ahead more attractive than death. Next j
came a woman of 40 with a French ac- |
cent, who stated that she had been j
ndled in a bu-iness partnership and
hi
this
Georgia Railroad investigation.
Freight Rate Reductions.
On the same day. Wednesday nerct.
! there is scheduled to be heard before
the commission the matter of the re
classification of the Seaboard Air
Line and the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad
; Georgia Railroad case will necessitate
: a brief delay in this, but it will be
reached very shortly thereafter.
On March 26 a similar hearing will
be had upon the question of the re
classification of the Atlanta. Birming
ham and Atlantic.
The two first named railroads are
now in Class C. where they are per
mitted to charge on local hauls 25 pc-
cent in addition to the standard tar
iff rates, while the Atlantic. Birming
ham and Atlantic Is in Class D, where
the percentage is even larger.
The two former are railed on tD
show cause why thev should not be
placed in Class B and the latter why
it should no: go to Class C. changes
which, if made, would Involve a reduc
tion of approximately 10 per cent in
the local rates of freight which these
railroads are allowed to charge.
Upon hearings had iast year the Cen
tra] of Georgia, and the Southern
Railway were transferred from Class C
to Class B. involving the reduction
stated, and the Atlantic Coast Line
was transferred from Class B to a
class haif way between B. and A. All
of these reductions in rates, for that
hat thev amounted to. were
ion for two and onc-half cent railroad
fares wherever the State commiss'oner
deems such reduction advisable
amendment of divorce laws in the in
terest of reform and a State wide pri
mary election law.
certain needed Cuban laws, threaten ...
; resign ln a body because the committee
; voted this afternoon to take unde- consid-
I oration a proposal to give foreigners a
vote in the munielne.l elections. This
question was excitedly discussed in the
Liberal Club tonight, and Liberal mem-
; hers of the committee have been ordered
; by the party leaders to attend a party
conference next Monday prior to the next
session of the committee.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 9.—Abra
ham Reuf was arrested tonight at a
if mav be that the [ suburban resort by Elisor W. J. Big-
erv. who was piloted to the place by
Detective Burns.
ieft alone in New York without friends ; joined by the roads in question in the
.TANGIER. Alarch 9.—Raisuli is re
ported to have escaoed from the strong
hold of the Bcn-Iair:us tribe, where
he had taken refuge, and to have gone
to som n practically Inaccessible moun
tains where he Is gathering a large
following from the turbulent tribes.
NEW YORK March 9.—A suit
asking for $10,900,003. actual and $30,-
000.990 tentative damages was com
menced today in the United States
Circuit Court by the Pennsylvania .
Sugar Refining Company, against the j
American Sugar Refini”g C mmanv. ?1.
O. Havemeyer. lt« president; J. C. My- ,
ers the -orn •rat'on’s general counsel
and Gustave G. Kisel. Walter D.'Rob
in-an. Georg" L. Trigg .and .Morris J. 1
Werner. The action grows out of tjie
failure of Adolph Segal in Philadelphia, ,
ANNAPOLIS, Ind:. March 9.—Permis
sion lias been granted the Rev. E. W.
j ?.tatth?ws. secretary of the B-iflah ar.d
| Foreign Sailors' Society, to address the
midshipmen of the Naval Academy. The
: date has not yet bee n p ..*, but the address ^.... „. - —
Will he delivered shortly. On this ocoa- ’ against the Republican party
sion there will be presented to the Acad- -
cmy by A'r. Matthews a valuable memento
from Nelson’s flagship “Victor:.'.'' This
re’ic comes from the British Admiralty,
and bears the Initials of King Edward.
SPARTA. Ga.. March 9.—Hon. Janies
M. Aloore died this afternoon at 1
o’clock at his home in Culverton, aged
eighty years. He was Hancock's rep
resentative in the Legislature a num
ber of years. His long life was one
of usefulness ar.d devotion to duty.
His surviving children are Airs R. H.
Lewis and Col. R. W. Aloore. of Spa:) a.
Airs. R. A. Chapman', and Gordon
Aloore, of ‘Washington, Airs. F. Wal
ter .and E. V. AToore. of Culverton,
nnd Airs. D. L. Brown, of Alacon. Air.
Aloore lest his wife about a year ago. ! Dinglev law than there is in the Stand-
I ard Oil Company or the beef trust.
country has been in an agony over
the thing, ar.d there .are more remedies
than there are for influenza. Given a
Rockefeller, and you have a Debs;
given a beef trust, and you have a
Populist pr.rtv. When rascally mil
lions are piled up. the possessors of
which are lenders of the financial, so
cial *and political world, there is
created a class that is the enemy nf
all wealth, honest an well as knavish.
We have nearly come to the point
when to be prosperous is to be crimi
nal. nnd we will re-?h it when the next
bad crop comes. This is an indictment
, that has
betn in power so long and is the daddy
of every vicious law on the statute
books. A single example: The man
who grows cotton is taxed 54.26 per
cent to protect the man who spins and
weaves ectton. That is but one ex
ample of ten thousand. As long as the
Government practices such perfidy as
that, how can it rebuke the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad for furnishing cars
to haul A’s coal while refusing cars
to haul B’s coal? For forty years the
Republican party has been separating
the people into tax-payers and tax-
eaters. and why should it prescribe
honesty in business until it practices
honestv in Government?
I beli'eve there is more graft in th
Is tho movement of
spot
nn:
ion
at tho
leading interior
cotton
towns for tli
o week
ending Friday.
March
S:
th
£
TOWNS—
c.
%
j
-
p.
o
O
S’, ■
1 M
Vj
T e
Albany . . . .
38
831
IS 15
Athens . . . .
1030
020
335
13452
Atlanta . . .
ii 3-16
1491
1461
32952
Brcnham . . .
105
288
2064
Charlotte . . .
li
75 1
Columbia . . .
2’ cn
15700
Columbus. Ga.
io?;
5 77
850
s;>o
167 60
Colum.. Alim..
500
c?r,
93 3 4
Dallas . . . .
394
10S3
1623
Eufaul.a . . .
13
1572
Greenville. . .
1273
121S
65*6
Greenwood . .
50"
3951
250
2962
Helena ....
107S
2*33
3471 4
Little Rock....
id 7 *
4738
72>2
39943
Macon ....
1114
J14
S3 i
4125
Meridian . • -
1183
2695
.9835
Montgomery ..
10K
1330
2122
2122
3 8690
Nashville . . .
207
394.
Natch os ....
790
1512
1292
8912
Newberry . ■!..
.... 5
Ci 7
00 . .
1004
Raleigh . . .!
11
3 11
475
3051
Rome . . . . 1
616
839!
4201
.Selma
2^S
i ns
2002
Shreveport . .
[oy 2
i ■ II
‘201
565
13375
Vlcksbursr. . . j
211
1691
24813
Yazoo City
422
902
.. J
9217
Comparative Cotton Statement.
NEW YORK. M irch S.—The following
is the comparative .‘ '..atement of cotton for
the week ending Friday, March S:
1997. 1906.
Net port receipts ITS.453 108.115
Receipts since Sept. 1. .8.450.321 6.3G2.771
Exports for week 166.841 119.728
I6xports since Sept. 1... .6.459.650 4.714.854
Stock all U. S. ports... .1.098.521 770.801
Stock ail int. towns 538.381 599.537
Stock at Liverpool 1,10.8.000
Amn. afloat for C. B.... 202,000
WASHINGTON, Alarch 9—Arrange
ments have been completed for the 1
transfer of companies of coast artii-
lery now stationed at Southern forts ;
to Northern quarters, and nine com-
The oleomargarine tax Is as exquisite
a piece of rascality as ever Wall street
invented.
Some of these times the good genius
the American people will bestir it
panies of coast artillery now stationed : self and the good sense of the Ameri-
in the North to Southern posts. This can people will correct the abuses that
will eary out the plan of having an an- , have grown almost Intolerable. Some
tation for the benefit [ great man will arise and lead the peo-
of the artillerists. For effecting these ■ pie out of the dangers that now en-
transfers the transport Kilpatrick :ih-- circle them. I do not know whom it
ATLANTA. ATarch 9.—At a meeting
of Atlanta citizens today nearly $4,000
was raised for immigration purposes. : nual change of
Five thousand dollars is all Atlanta
will he allowed to raise. Chairman
Betjeman stated at the meeting that j been selected. The movements are to j will be: he ha? not yet discovered him
decision in regard to immigrants pay- I begin not later than March 31. seif. He will not be an empiric, a
Cotton Receipts.
NEW YORK. Alarch S.—The following
are the total net receipts of cotton at all
ports since September 1: Eales
Galveston ;....3.344.390
New Orleans 1.962.409
Mobile 229,904
Savannah 1.304.746
Charleston 139,007
Wilmington 299.854
Norfolk 483.572
Baltimore 46,610
New York 14.363
Boston 55,041
Newport News 29,101
Philadelphia 4.847
San Franrisco 54.940
Brunswick 138.696
Port Townsend 81,451
Pensacola 122,603
Portland. Ore 400
Port Arthur and Sabine Pass 123.764
Jacksonville, Fla 7.247
T.a redo, Texas 494
Alinor ports 6,STS
Total
.. .S.4550,221